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Scout B
Launched 1967-05-30 02:06 UTCSpace Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
No cause has been given yet.
Launch failure
Target: Polar Orbit
Scout B lifted off with ESRO 2A, but the launch failed.
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No cause has been given yet. What European Space Research Organisation finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
ESRO 2 (European Space Research Organisation), Iris (International Radiation Investigation Satellite) was a 75 kg spin-stabilized spacecraft. On the launch of ESRO 2A, the third stage vehicle failed and the spacecraft did not achieve orbit.
Launch Provider
Multinational · France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark · Founded 1964
The European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) was an international organisation founded by 10 European nations with the intention of jointly pursuing scientific research in space. It was founded in 1964. As an organisation ESRO was based on a previously existing international scientific institution, CERN. The ESRO convention, the organisations founding document outlines it as an entity exclusively devoted to scientific pursuits. This was the case for most of its lifetime but in the final years before the formation of ESA, the European Space Agency, ESRO began a programme in the field of telecommunications.
Launches
5
Successful
4
80%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
25m
Diameter
1m
To low Earth orbit
143kg
Liftoff thrust
513kN
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